This sketch is the eighty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-six: Very simple tonight. I just felt like practicing creating forms. This silhouette of a twiggy, flowering shrub is based on a detail from the place mat sitting next to my computer. The background, […]
Also tagged black, oil, pencil, spring, still lifeThis sketch is the fifty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-five: This landscape was drawn after part of a snapshot one of my parents took when I was about 7, and we lived on a farm outside of Bemidji, MN. Making this picture helped […]
Also tagged landscape, oilThis sketch is the fifty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-0ne: This sketch was inspired by my own study of water yesterday, but more importantly a print in my collection by late 19th-century artist Alphonse Legros. He used drypoint and the impression has quite […]
Also tagged art on art, landscape, pen and ink, waterThis sketch is the fiftieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty: Wasn’t sure what to draw, but wanted to work on a study of still water. Started in oil, but wasn’t in the mood to mess with color. Pencil was just the thing to […]
Also tagged landscape, pencil, waterThis sketch is the fortieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty: I’d like to say this was a plein-air painting, but that would mean I wasn’t in Minnesota today, which I am. Not that winter is really so unbearable, but I must admit that […]
Also tagged landscape, oil, waterThis sketch is the thirty-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-four: I know this is sorta lame, but I didn’t have a lot of time today for sketching. Plus I want to figure out how to create a robust field of prairie grasses. The […]
Also taggedThis sketch is the thirty-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-two: This sketch was inspired by the rocky Pacific coast of the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica between the point south of Serena and the Madrigal River (south too of the shipwreck). A fun […]
Also tagged landscape, seascape, waterThis sketch is the thirtieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty: This drawing was inspired by a photograph taken by Gus Alfano in Clarence, NY. It was a terrific subject for playing with layers, blenders, and brush types in Corel Painter. Fun and satisfying!
Also tagged bird, oil, still life, winterThis sketch is the twenty-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day twenty-two: painted after a photo I took of a red poison dart frog in Tortuguero, Costa Rica in 2006.
Also tagged frog, oil, still life